Some 150 clerics and lay people from several dioceses in the Mid-Atlantic states traveled to the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center in Columbia Oct. 10 to learn how to better serve their growing Latino congregations and to effectively unite the English and Spanish-speaking communities.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Human beings, including embryos, must never be manipulated or exploited for scientific and medical research, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

BERKELEY, Calif. – The future of the Catholic Church as a global force depends on shared power and mutual respect between the church’s historic center in Western Europe and its fast-expanding population base in the Southern Hemisphere, Georgetown University theologian Father Peter Phan told an audience in Berkeley Oct. 6.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – Police evicted several dozen former nuns from a Polish convent after they refused a series of court orders to leave.Read More

As Ed Ruane of Charles Village settled into a cushioned swivel chair at the Beatnik Barbershop in Mount Vernon, he instructed the barber to trim the sides, shape the top and clean his neck.Read More

Jeanne Forbeck was vacationing with her family in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in June when her husband, Charles, noticed a woman floating face down in the surf. As soon as he and another man pulled the lifeless body from the ocean, Mrs. Forbeck went to work giving the woman CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI asked for prayers for participants in the Catholic-Orthodox international theological dialogue after the Russian Orthodox delegation walked out of the meeting.Read More

LATROBE, Pa. – Blessed Mother Teresa’s niece told an audience at St. Vincent College in Latrobe Oct. 6 that she remembers her father, Lazar, telling stories about growing up with the older sister who would become the famous nun.Read More